The performance calendar is arranged into seasons at the different partner venues, and offers a considerable degree of visibility to these original creations that combine artistic audacity with high professional standards. Between 2012 and 2019, selections of New Settings works were presented in the United States as part of the Crossing the Line festival in partnership with the FIAF – French Institute Alliance Française in New York. During the pandemic, the Foundation stood by the creators who were unable to present their work due to public health restrictions. It subsequently worked with its partners to ensure that the postponed performances could take place, so that artists and spectators could finally return to theatres and auditoriums to experience these new works in person.

The Fondation d’entreprise Hermès is also committed to expanding the audiences of New Settings performance works and to sharing the creative gestures of their authors. In 2022, the “New Settings... Going Further” format expands the programming of the current edition, accompanying artists as they venture beyond the theatre stage to share their works with audiences at a remove from cultural venues. In partnership with the MC93, the TCi, the Académie Fratellini and the École Supérieure d’Art Dramatique (ESAD), supported artists are invited to literally go off the beaten track through workshops and itinerant performances, giving new audiences the opportunity to experience the emotion of performance works.